I haven’t posted lately because everything I think about seems so trite in comparison to what I think may be TEOTWAWKI unfolding like, really any day now. Normally I like to joke and holler about how fucked everything is while being resigned to watching a long slow painful death of the great american way of life. I grew tired of the “End is Near” sandwich board and forgot how spooky it felt. It is on me again… and I tend to go quiet when the really major stuff happens… thus, no recent posts.
If that Blow Out Preventer comes away from the wellhead due to erosion the gusher goes from 70 thousand BPD to… well, a lot more than that. But the worst part is when that happens there isn’t any plugging the damaged wellhead option available. The reservoir burps out goo until the pressure is gone. Who knows the number… but it’s measured in Valdezes, 11…22..33..44..55…million. You get the picture.
I may be one in a thousand (or ten thousand) who isn’t completely asleep but I have a bad feeling that an awful lot of sleepers are going to wake up if BP has nothing left to work with than an open hole in the ground erupting a geyser of shit. Think filling your bathtub with a firehose – the word I’m looking for here is violent and uncontrollable. Kiss the peel and stick bathroom tile of the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard economy goodbye.
If even one out of fifty sleepers woke up and made a run on the grocery store, the gas station, and the bank JIT fails and sets up the next wave. That’s all I really want to say, and I bought another thousand rounds of 22 ammo and a box of 12 gauge 00 shells today. I think I need to get some more tomorrow, too.
You’re right. If people really paid attention to every little “snippet” and strung them all together, outcome is “We’re-Fucked”. Take the on-going Gulf-Spewing, coupled with deterioring economy, european collapse, euro-asian civil unrest, coming unrest here, i.e. the AZ immigration fights, throw in a terror even, and a hurricane for good measure, adds up to an “Uh-Oh” moment. This just can’t turn out well for anybody. Doom is here, it’s happening right in front of us and the “mindless” who haven’t woke up yet. And I agree, just one event (pick any scenario) pushes just 10% of the pop. to run the gas/grocery/wal-mart/bank, and it’s…Game-On. Having been busy myself, still have a “sick” feeling in the pit of my stomach nearly everyday. In the back of my mind I kept thinking, “maybe they’re right, i’m a loon”, “maybe it will turn around”, “I could be wrong about all this shit…it’ll get better”
Now I know…..I don’t think I was wrong….
This is bad. Been keeping off my feet to heal up so been spending way too much time researching. It’s bad a lot. This could go on for a year, year and a half. Yeah, it’s that bad. They follow every little twist in the Gulf currents like it’s going to matter in the long run. Eventually a whole Gulf is pretty much dead and who knows how much of the eastern seaboard.
Imagine if the Mississippi shipping channel is closed. Any idea how much food is shipped down there? Imagine if oil imports can’t unload.
Now imagine the dead gulf generating huge amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas making the coasts deadly.
Do you think the economy can handle the damage?
What will the people by the Gulf do? Where will they go?
Now just to make it interesting, who’s to say something else can’t happen too? Another war. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. Politicians.
Maybe you pick up some slugs too.
We’re in the clear so far where I’m at, but if they can’t stop this sucker…. I’m lucky, I got two places I can go. Other folks ain’t so lucky. Lots of lives will be ruined by this, even more by the fallout. If they can’t stop it, that’s a SHTF event. We’re talkin’ financial Armageddon, not to mention extinction level event for a lot of critters. Which will not be good for us either…
There’s a bright note – if Corpus Christi gets a tar bath we all get to watch mayberry make the transformation from 8 to 5er to hoe in hand dirt farmer. Betcha you say I told you so to the wife… frequently! You’ll do okay, or at least as well as the rest of us turnip fiends.
No slugs needed. Scoped 30.06 Boxes and boxes and boxes… and coffee cans buried here and there.
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If doom is on, lets get it over with.
I don’t think I want to survive it though. This planet is mean enough as is.
No point in getting closer to nature toiling in the sun if ya gotta go on asshole patrol every night.
The house always wins.
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I used to live in Africa, Liberia when I was between 8-12 years old. When I got back to a rular school on Gotland, Sweden everybody started to call me Simba, It was stuck for many years but gradually sunk away.
So one day while schearching for outdoorstoves I came on your rocket stove video on youtube and discovered your name. Since I beleive we have something in common, I saw your fox tape and have read your blogg. So I can without hesitation say that I´m on your side. Trying to do here in Sweden what you´re doing over there. I haven´t got as far as you but I´m working on it.
Since you toke my old nickname I decided to promote myself to Subcommendante Calle Calebas, and you can watch me on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/gutegrabben
Hello Comrade,
Boy do I understand about being in “Deer in the Headlights” mode. Gloom and Doom has gotten so thick and all pervading that it is difficult to move. We are still getting rain in the Northwest, and the hay is ready to be cut, but the weather is not right to get the job done. Gardens need to be planted, but the layers of sod are so thick that the ground must be turned over with a shovel before it can be tilled. If I look around me I see the struggle in the community, the state, the nation and the world. Going out into the solar system, the sun has been having its own struggle with a distinctly unusual sunspot cycle reminiscent of the Maunder minimum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum Seems there may be some global warming on Mars, and Jupiter has lost one of its spots. The universe seems to be sucking up human energy to apply it to some act of cosmic relief.
As we hunker down with out seeds and ammo and books and plans, a picture forms in my mind reminiscent of a scene from “The Graduate”. I have two words for you “Angry Youth”.
There has been a long history of directing the energies of young persons in specific directions where young men with excesses of testosterone were sent off to learn and practice the arts of war, or those young men and women who were able to afford greater luxury found it pleasurable to attempt to have infinite “safe” sex and consume endless “safe” drugs in the “safe” environs of the university system, or a few were able to move directly into the world of business where they could be taught the fine are of “Rape Pillage and Plunder” of the planet with the dogs of growth and profit ever chasing them onward.
It is the nature of the planet that assures us of the death of capitalism. By virtue of fixing the amount of resources available the vision of endless growth is shown to be a lie. We are hitting the edges of our petri dish and suddenly the world is now flat.
In my despair I wonder How many we will kill with our little mistake in the Gulf. Will we kill Florida, Louisiana, maybe Cuba? The earth itself seems to be plotting its revenge on the “Great Industrial Powers” sacrificing its flora and fauna to show us that maybe our endless poking and prodding has finally gone a bit too far. It is assured that we will not learn, and also that the lesson will continue.
In my mind I see visions of Africa with children and violent young men with guns. They seem to be one of the possible outcomes of our future. I wonder are we like the African Dutch who had visions of community and farms as places to produce and reproduce endlessly into the future who were taken quite by surprise as the world around them had quite different ideas.
A year or two from now when governments and oil companies and military powers are shown to be impotent against the protests of nature, we will be in much more of a position to truly assess the gloom and doom around us. I am sure then we will still have out seeds and ammo and books and plans, but I believe we will also begin to see the beginnings of a world in a state of financial collapse unable to provide for its people unless they are able to provide for themselves. Then I believe we will see a new generation that will face a life without a place or a bright future, or the hope that they will do better than their parents or provide a better world for their children. Then we will begin to feel the pressure in our world from the angry youth. Then we will know that change is coming and we are no longer the controllers of the vision
tired john
Jeez, tired John, I can’t even comment on that post….long day with sick calves, hotter than hell and then read that……gonna have to maybe actually skip the beer and go right to a mixed drink…..Comrade….Where are you?!???!
Charlie,
Just back from a 350 mile gonzo trip to get an Angora goat buck, but it has got to quit raining up here so I can do work and quit thinkin’. Yep, just put the critter in the barn with the rest and it is still commin’ down and mud everywhere. Maybe tomorrow.. who knows…
tj
Comrade, Where ya been? Your tellin’ me you don’t have internet hooked up in the bunker? Seems you’ve disappeared….
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The NY Times is clucking about you again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/us/06peak.html?hp
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Totally off topic – but after reading that your experiment with planting peanuts didn’t work out I shelled out the $$ for a small package of *real* seed peanuts. What with all the rain unending & my lovely nearly pure clay garden I am just now getting everything planted & working in the hot noon day sun to get it all in before the next round of storms hit. Anyway…opened up the package, shelled them out & some of them look a little swivelly – not dried but not plump either. Scroogled the internet to see how far apart to plant & see a recommend to use raw from the store. hmmm…putting the two together, I’m wondering if raw from the store needs to be purchased as soon after harvest as possible & then stored somewhere cool or maybe frozen(?). Maybe they just get too dry when kept on the store shelf or around the kitchen. What do you think?
84 million gallons to date is the newest estimate. Based on the corpgov’s historic underestimation, one could reasonably guess at a factor of 10 over that. Shocked, I wondered if taking the “blue pill” now might put me back to sleep as I heard somewhere that if you die in your sleep that that is somehow better… can’t go out like that though, no Valkyrie. Wondering if divine intervention is what pushed me high up on the Colorado Plateau and barely out of the way of Gulf spawned weather patterns. Won’t matter much as I never did like oily food.
welcome den… the reservoir is estimated to hold 500 million barrels… I’m sure at least half of that will burp out of that hole when it’s all said and done.
Those who ate the red pill have a better chance of getting through the collapse…